Hello, This spike is probably caused by bot traffic. I would disregard it entirely. Please see, for example, a similar problem in all top pageviews in hungarian wikipedia for last month.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T237282 Thanks, Nuria On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 2:42 PM Brian Keegan <[email protected]> wrote: > Webmasters sometimes design their 404 pages to link to Wikipedia articles, > so if their website goes down all their users (human and bot) start getting > referred to Wikipedia articles. I could easily image there being a “This > page isn’t available, go grab a cup of coffee” kind of placeholder page > being up. > > > > *From: *Analytics <[email protected]> on behalf of > Jan Ainali <[email protected]> > *Reply-To: *"A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody > who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics." < > [email protected]> > *Date: *Sunday, December 22, 2019 at 3:01 PM > *To: *"A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has > an interest in Wikipedia and analytics." <[email protected]> > *Subject: *Re: [Analytics] Pageviews anomaly > > > > Another observation is that it only spiked from desktop and not from > mobile which suggests it was not because of a general interest (which would > cause spikes on all platforms). > > > Best regards, > > Jan Ainali > > http://ainali.com > > > > > > Den sön 22 dec. 2019 kl 22:01 skrev effe iets anders < > [email protected]>: > > I agree this is odd - especially the fact that both the day before and the > day after, the article had less than 100 visits > <https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=he.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2019-09-01&end=2019-09-30&pages=%D7%A7%D7%A4%D7%90%D7%99%D7%9F>. > Usually there seems to be some spillover at the very least into the next > day. > > > > Lodewijk > > > > On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 5:17 AM Keren WMIL <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear all, > > It's almost Christmas and the new year is coming around. At the end of > each year we publish a list of the most viewed Hebrew Wikipedia articles in > the past year. > > We have a data point that appears to be anomalous: the article caffeine > <https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=he.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=this-year&pages=%D7%A7%D7%A4%D7%90%D7%99%D7%9F>received > more than 450K views on one day: 26th of September 2019. We can't see any > reason for such a surge and it is completely disproportionate. Even on > English Wikipedia caffeine > <https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=this-year&pages=Caffeine>hasn't > received so many views on one day - not even on the 8th of February > when Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge who identified caffeine was features on the > daily Google Doodle. > > It seems this data point is erroneous. Is there any way to verify that, or > inquire where the error stems from? > > > > Kind regards and seasons greetings, > > > > Dr. Keren Shatzman > > Senior Coordinator, Academia & Projects > Wikimedia Israel > > > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >
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